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cowboy fan, and a bunch of others that were with
me on the daytime, the rare and appropriate daytime show
that we did earlier locally, and now we're back at
at it here on the overnight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I didn't get the memo. I'm fully Floyd Mission. I
didn't get the memo. We're supposed to talk about some
women's basketball player that got hurt. I don't know her name,
but you got hurt apparently. But I didn't get that memo.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So I think we're gonna go with football, because people
actually watch that sport even the offseason, fascinating.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's an amazing thing. And so there was a story.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
A number of you pointed this out to me, and
I'd heard about it hours ago, and many of you
were very concerned. You thought, well, let me let me
bust Malors balls here because you know there's a team
that I like, and the top offensive player for that
team has now made a bold statement.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So if you didn't see it, you don't know what
I'm talking about. Here.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Our lead is from the NFL this hour and poo
who can occur the breakout star? Last couple of years
for the Rams. He has become a wide receiver number one.
He really been outstanding NFL career, really just just getting started.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Uh and he's been great.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But the wide receiver has already announced he is thinking
about retirement. Say why, uh, yeah, So if you didn't
see this and maybe not, maybe you were busy doing stuff.
So Poola Nicoua said he wants to have a big family.
So I think most people that have a big family
normally have to keep working.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
This usually is that usually out where you're gonna feed.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Him, but not if you're in the cartoonish world of
the NFL. So Pooka's got it all planned out. He
wants to have a big family, so I guess no
birth control. And then he wants to to check out
of the NFL, not live, but of the NFL at
age thirty.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Got that all figured out. He's ready to go all right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Nicoua entering his third NFL season with the l A Rams,
and he has been outstanding so far. Speaking on some
dopey podcast that had about two listeners, Poolga Nakula said
the follow He explained that he wants to follow a
similar path as Aaron Donald. The Hall of fame defensive
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player for the Rams. Nicole has said, quote, I think
Aaron Donald is the way to go to go out
on top. I think it would be super cool, he
said down. Donald retired actually at age thirty two. He
quit on the NFL walked away despite earning All Pro
honors and the Rams were Super Bowl winner a couple
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years prior to Donald hanging up, but he said that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The Rams tried to get him to come back. I
heard last year he said, no, I'm not coming back.
I'll come back and watch you practice and I'll futz
around with my hands and play with my thumbs, but
I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Actually go out there and play.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And Puko was talking about traveling around and doing this,
that and the other thing. So question, question, where is
the malor worry o meter?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The mallor worry O meter?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Pooka Nikoua leaving the Rams at age thirty even though
he's not the years away from that, But where's the
malor warrio meter for Pooka Nakua retiring when he gets
to age thirty?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So I've got jungle.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Book Rhodes Scholar and Alfred Hitchcock and we will combine
all of these things together, and we are going to.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Trim with a razor, is what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So to kick off the festivities here, the malor worriometer.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Never wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The malor warial meter goes one to ten. Ten is
holy crap, We're screwed. That's a ten. Ten is a
holy crap, we're screwed situation. The malor wario meter has
never let me down. So on the scale of one
to ten, for Pooka Nakua retiring at age thirty, the
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malorario meter is at a one. It is is that
A one is where I am on the malarial meter,
and I think I'm going high. This is a small
pimple on an elephant's ass, is what this is? Okay,
it is despite all you fear mongering losers.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh bet, you're gotta be worried. You're on your top
planet or play anyway, shut up.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love how Pooka's got all this mapped out. It's
wonderful in theory, it's a great idea. I don't disagree
with the theory. Right why not make all your money,
retire at thirty, live a heatonous lifestyle and travel around
and get a yacht and just go all over the
oceans on the planet. You know, seventy percent of the ocean,
seventy perces of the planet's water. Seemed as wells to
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get a boat and go out there and travel around
knock yourself out. And I'm also aware that life is
what happens while you're busy making plans. Right. We spend
most of our time planning crap, and then we're actually
living our life while we're planning what we're going to do.
And eventually you don't actually complete all your plans because
you end up game over, lights out, checkout, time, the
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whole thing. Right, So, but this also reminds me that's
how I relate to this story is I'm going to
call this the Jungle Book, but it's really just the Jungle.
Great radio guy Jim Rome Legend worked at our company
for a long time. I worked at the station Jim
worked at in San Diego years ago, and Jim's a
Hall of Famer in radio. But I will never forget
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when I was working the local airwaves years ago, and
Jim Rome did an interview so long ago. Hey, these
things called newspapers and people actually read him so long ago.
This was, and Jim Rome did an interview with a
I think it was the La Times. It was around
the year two thousand and At this point, Jim was
in his mid thirties, and he essentially said, I'm paraphrasing,
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I'm paraphrasing this, but he essentially said, hey, nobody wants
to hear a guy talking smack in their fifties, implying
that he was going to get out of radio by
the time he got to his fifties. So Jim was
in his mid thirties when he said that. I'm happy
to report that Jim Rome is now sixty plus years old,
instill in the jungle and still giving out takes.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And good for him. That's why I'll never listen.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They're gonna have to rip the microphone out of my
bloody dead hands to get me out of here. Okay,
that's how that's gonna work. I'm open to it. But
Jim had a plan, and Pooka Nakua's got a plan,
and everyone's got a plan, and it's wonderful and it's great.
It's the bare necessities and all that, and good luck,
good luck. Even Aaron Donald he wanted to retire a
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couple of years early, the Rams convinced him to come
back for at least two more seasons than he originally
wanted to. And as far as Pooka and Akua trying
to stay healthy and has long term health. By my account,
he's been in the NFL two years. He's already had
a foot injury. He's had issues with both ankles, Little
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Snap Crackle Pop has had knee problems.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
He's had injury to the chest.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
He's had ham string problem, some kind of shoulder thing,
and a concussion which I believe is a brain injury.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So all of those things have already happened.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now furthermore, turning the page on that, we have a
Hall of Famer chiming in on a eventual Hall of Famer.
So hall of Famer on eventual Hall of Famer, and
that would be Michael Irvin, because there's one thing we
need is Michael Irvin's opinion on aon ragers.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Relax.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So Michael Irvin Hall of Famer. Back so long ago
the Cowboys actually used to win. It's how old Michael
Irvin is. He has a Cowboy Championship ring, so you
know he's a dinosaur. So Michael Irvin wants to see
Pittsburgh get their quarterback. He wants Pittsburgh to get the quarterback,
but he believes that Aaron Rogers is drawing out the decision.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He said, so the attention is all on him. It's
all about him.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So agree, I disagree, Michael Irvin agree in disagree with
Michael Irvin that Aaron Rogers is dragging this Steeler's decision
out to make it all about him. All right, So
I could have consulted. I do work with a guy
during football season who makes it all about him, some
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looney tune guy, so I could have text him. But
as far as Michael Irvan's concerned, when it comes to
football people making it all about themselves, I am going
to side with.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Michael Irvin.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So I am going to agree with Michael Irvin on
this because it's kind of obvious that the playmaker is
a Rhodes scholar at making it all about himself right
back in the day, bona fide expert in this department.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So why would I question Michael Irvin whether.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It was showing up with a full length mint coat
back in his playing days, the Ferrari the diamond stud
earring all of that he made sure that everyone was
looking at Michael Irvin. And he's still to this day
is monetizing that all about Michael Irvin. And so the Steelers,
by most accounts, check all of the.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Available boxes for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
They have no quarterback, no incumbent quarterback there in Pittsburgh.
They got rid of the dead weight Justin Field, who blows.
They sent their trash that he's now on the Jets,
so he can stick up the Jets. Russell Wilson's so
bad he can't even find a job. And so there's
no quarterback there in Mason Rudolph. Please, I'd rather have
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Mason the red nose Reindeer than Mason Rudolph. So you've
got no quarterback.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Check.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You've got that, you've got a playoff caliber defense.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Check.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You've got above average playmakers at wide receiver check check.
DK Metcalf came over from Seattle, although he's inconsistent. And
George Pickens, who's also a knucklehead, O, hey, why not
goes with the positions you got that, You've got the
debonair charismatic coach and Mike Tomlin. Rogers spent six hours,
six hours schmoozing in Pittsburgh eating parogis and hot cakes
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on Friday. Now, the normal human being, the normal human
being goes and meets with someone on a Friday, says,
all right, let me think about it over the weekend.
I'll have a decision on Monday. Well, now we're heading
into Tuesday and there's been no decision from Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And could it be that our.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Friend Andrea the astrology lady, is spot on that Rogers
is waiting for Mercury to go out of retro grade,
that we have to wait till least April seventh for
some kind of decision. Inquiring minds would like to know.
But supposedly the offer has not changed, that the Steelers
have made their contractor polls at Aaron Rodgers, the parameters,
the outline of the contract is already there. It's just available,
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and Rogers can get on the docu sign and click
his name there and he's good to go.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Hadn't done it yet, hadn't done it yet.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
We'll see dragging out making sure that every gas bag
and blowhard has content.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
We all need the content, very important to have the content.
We have the content all right.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Lastly, we have a wild story involving Cans City.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
The losers of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So chiefs Wide Receiver Xavier Worthy is suing a woman
he had planned on marrying, yeah, his former fiance in
the state of Texas, the Great State of Texas. There
alleging that, among other things, this lady stole and destroyed
more than one hundred and fifty thousand in cash and
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property and also assaulted him. That's the accusation. So can
you unscramble the reporting that the chiefs Wide receiver the
woman he had planned to marry went rogue? Can you
unscramble it? So it sounds based on the ring. It's
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really good reading, but I recommend reading this. It's good
toilet reading. It sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho
from and you're getting his side of the store.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
You can say anything you.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Want in a lawsuit, and we always throw that out
there because it's true. You know America how it works everywhere.
But you can throw all kinds of wild stuff, and
they encourage you to throw more wild stuff in there,
the more outrageous, the better. Just put it all in there.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Why not? And so right now it's a he said,
she said situation. It is leaning.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The scales are leaning towards Worthy, and here's why. Worthy
was actually arrested. Earlier this month, Che's wide receiver, you
might remember, was arrested. He was charged with assault, initially
accused of like strangling the woman, and then the district
attorney realized that the evidence doesn't quiet add up here,
so there were no charges filed. Again Worthy, which would
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seem to back up his claim that this woman had
a vendetta against him and so she had made it
appear that he was the aggressor and that was not
the case. Now he is claiming in the lawsuit, among
other things, Avery Worthy chiefs wide Receiver, claiming abuse, theft, extortion.
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He provided evidence that the woman he planned to marry
destroyed his property, violently ripped out his hair. Wow, that's
next level, man, rip your hair out and demanded a house,
also money, cars. And this is all after she had
an affair on him and then lied about him being
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the abuse. There'll be a quiz on this in our seven.
It'll be a quiz on this an hour seven. Now,
the other part of this, if I read this accurately
and I was a little sleep deprived, so bad right
or wrong? But as I understand it, the wide receiver
is Averyworthy. He's seeking between two hundred and fifty thousand
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and one million dollars in damage punitive and exemplary damage.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It's so fine. Okay, you've got that, but then you
read the fine print.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Worthy drives a Xaverworthy Chiefs wide receiver drives a Rolls Royce,
which is estimated in the neighborhood of five hundred thousand dollars.
He also owns several other luxury cars, including a Bugatti,
and that ain't cheap. Yet his salary is eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So maybe he's.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Staying in a studio apartment somewhere and he's just spending
all his money on cars. It's possible that's the case
and he's just living cheap. But that's a lot of
cars for a guy who's not, by NFL standards, eight
hundred thousand a lot of money. I think I was
rich if I had that, but not if I had
a five hundred thousand dollars car and another two hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
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Speaker 1 (17:09):
So our lead this hour is from a pro bouncy
ball and we go where the stories of the day
take us. This is a humdinger of a story. We
go to Milwaukee where the Bucks are a middleweight middleweight
contend They're not a real contender, They're not like completely
out of the mix in the NBA. But there are
very few, very few that expect Giannis and Dame time
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to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to the Promised Land this summer.
Now that being said, the Milwaukee Bucks head coach in
a nemesis of mind. If you've been listening to this
show for a while, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Glenn Rivers better known as a doc not a real doctor,
Glenn Rivers. So Doc Rivers went on the offense against
the many pundins who have pointed out his frailties, who
have criticized his performance and the fact that his teams
have consistently rode the vomit comet when they have gone
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up three games to one in playoff series. And that
is the consistent theme of a Doc Rivers coached NBA team.
So Rivers had as my grandfather would say the hutzpa
to brag, to brag about never being swept in the playoffs. Well,
then he took it to the next level. Then he said,
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hold on, let me crank it up a couple of notches. Bam,
just like that, he said. No one tells a real story,
he said. Regarding his coaching in the NBA, he says,
I'm fine with it. It's unfair in some ways. Boooooo,
it's unfair. I don't get enough credit. Here's the money
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quote from Doc Rivers. I don't get enough credit for
getting the three wins. I get credit for losing. Doc
Rivers complaint. I always say what if we had lost
to Houston in six referring to the Lob City Clippers
that gagged away a series to Corey Brewer and friends
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and Josh Smith, no one cares, Doc Rivers said. One
of the things that I am proud of is that
we've never been swept. All the coaches, Doc went on
to say, have been swept in the playoffs. My teams achieve.
Doc said, as he pulled a muscle, patting himself on
the back. A lot of them overachieve, and I'm very
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proud of that. Period stuff. All right, So let us
discuss the question for the esteem panel. What is your
riak shuan? To the Bucks coach Doc Rivers saying that
essentially he's being short changed here in terms of credit
and he wants that riespect. He wants that on his
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name for winning three games in various playoff series. He
ultimately would go on to lose. His teams ended up
blowing those series, but he would like to get credit
for them. So my observations, I've got root beer, sliced bread,
and Joe Rogan and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a Kodak moment.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It's a dated reference, but just go with it, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So numb number numb ur Doc Rivers is living in
a parallel dimension. Does anyone disagree with that statement? Doc
Rivers is living in a parallel dimension. Now, I realize
a lot of the basketball scribes when they interviewed Doc,
they have knee pads on. They love Doc so much.
They just can't massage his toes enough. They licked the toes.
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It's just they can't get enough of Doc Rivers. So
this commentary, I do Twilight Zone.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Do do do do? Do do do do do do
do Do Do Do Do do Twilight Zone picture if
you will, a world where you get credit for not
winning almost winning? Say what now?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Realize everything's upside down and right is wrong and h
left is right and down is up and I get
all that. It's bizarre world. But can we do this
at every other job? If I don't show up and
I missed, like the first two segments of the show,
can I say, well.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I did the rest of the show. I mean it
was here for most of the show. What do you expect.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, maybe I'll just take a segment off and I'll
take a nap in the back room. But I was
here for most of the show. I mean, don't I
get credit for that? Come on, now, what's wrong with you?
How great is your truck driver?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I just I don't want to go that extra thousand miles.
I'm just gonna cut off to the side here and
I'll go to bed and that's that.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But I did do the other trip. I did the
rest of the trip. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He said, No one tells the real story, and you
don't get enough credit, is what. He doesn't get enough credit.
So I'll have what he's having. I'm pretty sure Doc
is drinking root beer. It's a and W root beer
as in almost winning, almost winning root beer and makes
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me want to puke in my mouth, makes me absolutely
want to puke in my mouth over and over.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And over again when I hear this.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And not just my Clippers, but also the Celtics. Well,
the Celtics won a championship, that's true, but regularly had
a seat right in the cockpit on the vomit comet
over and over Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. That vintage
of the Celtics should have won at least one, if
not two, more championships. They had a five year window.
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They ended up only winning one, which is still the
most improbable championship of all time because Doc rivers fingerprints
are all over it. And the Clippers, the Lobb City Clippers,
they didn't even make the NBA finals. They didn't even
make the conference finals. In the Lobb City Clipper days,
that is criminal. That team should have won at least
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one championship. And the common denominator Glenn Rivers, the phony
doctor coaching malpractice from Doc Rivers, and he stands alone
at the very top the peak, the very if you
look up the very peak of Suck Mountain, Doc Rivers
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right there.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
He's looking down at us, and we're looking up at doctor. Hey, Doc,
how you doing up there on suck Mountain?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Doc?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Dope?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You realize he's the only coach, the only one in
NBA history to have blown three three to one series leads.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
He stands by himself a top suck Mountain. But wait,
there's more.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Doc Rivers teams have lost Game seven at home five times.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
When I was younger, home you almost never lost at
home in a Game seven that was a guaranteed win.
The road team almost never won. Doc Rivers comes along
five times. Doc Rivers coach teams Game seven at home,
five of them. They've been eliminated eleven times at home altogether.
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But wait, there's more. We're not done the numbers. I
have Doc Rivers in close out games as a coach,
his teams have played a total of fifty close.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Out games in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Chance to eliminate the opponent in advance his team is
sixteen and thirty four.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
That's a three to twenty winning.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Percentage for Doc Rivers coach teams and close out games
to close out a series and to advance to go
to the next round.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
All right, Now, moving.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
On, we go to Miami, Miami, Miami, where Jimmy Buckets
is filling up the content plate. My man, Jimmy Buckets.
Now I realize he plays in Golden State now and
they're getting ready for an epic showdown South Florida. It's
a grudge match. Jimmy Butler returns to Miami and wearing
the Golden State uniform. So Jimmy Buckets thinks that heat
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culture gets too much hype. Say what, Yeah, it gets
too much hype, and he credits success to the players
he said. He says, quote, I'm not saying it to
talk down.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Or anything, but.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I think whenever you have a really good player, a
really good players, you can name it whatever you want
to name it.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
All right, So now with Golden State Jimmy Butler. Again,
for those of you a little slow here, Jimmy Butler
thinks that heat culture gets it's too much hype. Thumbs
up or thumbs down on this one. So I'm actually
gonna go thumbs up on this. I used to be
thumbs down guy, but now I'm going thumbs up and
let me explain why I've evolved my position.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm in agreement.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
However, here's the way I will phrase it. Jimmy Butler
did use a word which is a neutron bomb of
a word.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You know what the word is, starts with a bee.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But he said the word but and you and I
both know in conversation when you say that word, And
he said, I'm not saying it to talk down to anything, but.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You know what that means. That's right.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Everything a person says before the word but is a lie.
How many times when I was dating I would hear
from a woman, You're just a great guy.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I think you're wonderful, you're so charming.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
But you're a douche. Everything before that was a lie.
Everything before that was a lie. Okay, and so, but
here's the thing. I remember when the Patriots when they
had the divorce of Brady and Belichick, and I stood
alongside Belichick because I thought there was actually something to
the Patriot way, that there was something to that. And
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then I watched them go out there and put feces
all over the field in Foxborough, and the Patriots became
how they were when I was a kid, called the Patsies,
and so I said, what happened in the Patriot way,
what's up with that heat culture?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's gone, it's gone away.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Also like they got players that aren't very good now
in Miami, that don't that don't make big shots, and
suddenly heat cultures not the same. And it it all,
it's all cut from the same cloth, the same mindset.
If you will, where you end up when you win
a lot, as Jimmy Butler referenced here, you end up
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having at least a few great players, and then surrounded
by those great players, you have the players that do
the unglamorous work, the grinders. If you will, no rest
for the wicked, the tough minded players, the gritty, scrappy
players that get elevated right, rising tide raises all boats
and all that crap. So everyone gets risen up by
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the great players. And if you think of it like
sliced brand, if you think of it like sliced bread,
you take away the elite players. Miami was Jimmy Butler,
although Jimmy Butler had checked out before they got rid
of him and Tom Brady with the Patriots, you take
those guys away, and you don't replace them with equal players,
you don't replace them with equal players, and then the
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whole thing falls apart like a piece of wet sliced brand.
Just falls apart, just falls apart. Now, final point, my guy,
the glue guy, Pat Beverley will likely never play in
the NBA again. He was kicked out of the NBA
and his famous last moment wasn't it with the Bucks
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there when he threw the ball out the fan?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah? In Indiana.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Anyway, Patrick Beverly's does what everyone else does a podcast?
If you're jock, why not do a podcast? No one
listens to them, but you might as well do it.
So Patrick Beverly, Pat goes by. Pat said, no one
in the NBA, no one is afraid of the Cleveland Cavaliers,
(29:29):
is what he said. No one in the NBA is
afraid of the Cleveland Cavaliers. So what do you make
of that analysis by former NBA player Pat Beverly. So
it's not so much the calves. What you're really saying.
You're claiming that no one's afraid of the spider Spider Mitchell.
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That's what that is. You're saying that Spider Mitchell, Donovan
Mitchell is not that good and if Donovan Mitchell was
that good, you would be afraid of Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
But you're not.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
And so you're saying that he's got that tiger blood
Donovan Mitchell, but it's not actual tiger. It's paper tiger.
He's a paper tiger, and that's the that's the problem.
Could regular season player was on some solid regular season
teams with the Utah Jazz, yet has not consistently gotten
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it done at a high level in a winning matter
in the playoffs. And therefore you don't get the as
I like to say it, the Joe Rogan fear factor,
if you will, when you go against Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
The same body. There's like no one that's really unbeatable
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Like the Celtics are a paper shot team and they
could go a couple of games out not making three
point shots and Oklahoma City, you don't really.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Get scared of that team in Cleveland. And the Lakers
have old man Lebron.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
They just lost to Orlando, got run off the court
by the Magic after getting run off the court by
the Bulls, they're falling apart. I fired a reddick right
now if I were the Lakers. Get rid of that podcast.
So they're they're done. The Lakers are cooked. But you
look around, I mean in the entire NBA, there's there's
issues everywhere, and there's no there's no one. It's not
like the old NBA, whereas it's guaranteed this team's gonna
at least get to the finals. There's none of that
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about four or five teams, and then after that it's
a toss up.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 3 (31:28):
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets great.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Reports of Shoulder Sanders draft stock have been all over
the place. Some say he could fall out of the
first round completely, the others say that is unlikely to happen.
The latest reporter says he will fall no further than
the number seven pick held by the Jets.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Ben, what do you think the latest Sanders could be
picked as? Yeah, so I think it'll be picked in
the top ten. But every year there's a guy that
drops and it's good. It's good television coops. So if
it's Shoulder Sanders, that's great. He will be draft in
the top ten. I don't think he goes past the tent.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Pick next, now, Dyson Daniels may not be a household name.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You've got Trey.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Young thinks his Hawks teammates should be a lock for
Defensive Player of the Year. Daniels just became only the
third player in the last twenty five years to record
two hundred plus steals in a season, and the youngest
player ever to do it. Ben, do you think he
should win the award?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
No, he's not gonna win the MVP A Defensive Player
of the Year award. I think Evan Mobley of the
Cavs right now. And actually, I've heard a lot of
noise for Draymond Green. Those two guys.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Next.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Arizona star Caleb Love helped beat Oregon to set up
a date in the Sweet sixteen against Duke. He said,
we'll be ready for them. He beat them three years
ago playing for North Carolina. Do you think he can
lead his team to an upset again?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
No, No, they're not going to win.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's a cute little story for Caleb Love. What do
you expect him to say? By the way, Cooper're gonna
We're not gonna get it. I mean, come on, no,
it's over. How we do Coolalo?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I felt rushed.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, that's a feeling. I didn't make you right. You
fell rushed.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I'm my you. I didn't encourage you to be rushed.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I knew the clock. I'm fine with the clock.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
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Speaker 1 (33:19):
Let's welcome in our contestants game show contestant of the Year,
the reigning Benny Winner from SoCal in Guardina. We say
hello to Manuel in Guardina, a legend not only here
but in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Hello Manuel, Benny Blocks and the box the raina oh
brouncle fan?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
What is up my friends? Yeah? Look at you man?
Ready to go?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Here?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Are you? Are you looking to redeem yourself here? Manuel?
Is there some redemption?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I am? I am? You know I had a crap
showing last week, kind of like the toilet type plunge.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yes, well, at least you know, go like Iowa Sam
and just use your hand to plunge the way. Oh no,
it's an Iowa think Iowa Sam revealed. No, yeah, he
revealed that.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Was he at a party or something like that, or
there was some I forget the story, but he was
somewhere and he didn't have a plunger, and I guess.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
It wasn't got busy in a Burger king bathroom.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, he just went in there. And that's el nata ral.
You know, you gotta go. It's like mcgiver. That's an
outdated reference. But you just got to use what you got.
And uh that's why the Hello, all right, man man,
Well who would you like to partner up with? Manuel?
Who do you want to you know I'm going with you?
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Then? Well when, of course, with redemption, hold on a second,
we have door number.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
One or door number two, number two, number two? All right,
you picked.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Far out Dave in Ohio. Hello far he's laughing, he's snickering.
Hello far out Dave.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Of course. And of course when I get to say,
it's the play, I gotta go against the king and
go figure.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, sometimes the king has a bad performance.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It does happen far out Dave.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And I assume you want to partner up with Coop
or you want to go with lorrain In and really
press your lucks Coop.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Wow, I really thought you were gonna choose me.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
It's not like that.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You got too snacks you got to give you.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
You're right, You're right. I'm gonna go snack, man, go snack.
And there's like a whole music thing going on here
at night too.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I walk down the hall, I hear some jams bouncing
around the building here.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
So now I just want to say. You don't have
time to say it, Lorrain, I stopped. Coop's gonna get
upset because jeez, let's let's get the game going.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
All right. One of the categories, are you such a
rules guy? He doesn't be called out right now?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
No, I just don't hurry all right? This is you're
the one that she's This is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the Mighty Madison Edition. She turns twenty six years old today.
She won the Best Actress Award at the Oscar has
been That's.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
That's what she was. No idea who that is.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
She's in the movie in Nora anyway. The categories are
it takes three, scream better things and Anora and man,
well you are on first?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Which category?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Would you like it?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
All right?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
And Dave?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
How about you? All right? Scream?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Okay? Hold on right there. Do not hang Do not
hang up, Do not hang up. We're gonna get to
the game. Very exciting. Oh my god, you can feel
the tension. Who's gonna win? Manuel the reigning game show
call of the year? Far out, Dave. We'll get to it.
It's Malors Mountain of Money in its entirety coop it is.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
He's getting so upset like your hat today, Ben, shut up.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
We'll get to it next day. He's getting so upset,
he's so pissed.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailer's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Not?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
All right, let's do it. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
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Speaker 3 (37:21):
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Speaker 3 (37:34):
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for life out here? All right, very good?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Manuel in Guardina is teamed up with me far out
Daves with Cooper, Loop and Coop.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
What are we doing here? Which categories? It takes three,
I believe.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Is what you' that's your category.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
That's all right, we're going first because we're on the
here first.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
All right, Manuell. These athletes all weigh where or war
number three? Are you ready? Manuel in so Caw, the
reigning game show caller a year.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, let's do it, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Forty five seconds on the clock. We're on our way
and go. Mister unlimited for Seattle and Pittsburgh. Yes, the
Bambino for the Yankees. He was the point guard for
the Lob City Clippers. He's in San Antonio. Yes, three
point specialists for the Washington Wizards. He went to the
Phoenix Suns. He's on the Suns now. He stinks with
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with Kevin Durant and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And you know, all.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Right, safety for the Chargers. Two time All Pro. He's
on the team right now. He's from Florida State for
the LA Chargers. All right, shortstop played with Alan Trammel
in the eighties for then no shortstop. Oh I say
they wrong? Ye match up by me? All right, quarterback
(38:52):
from Oregon State times out interrupted me.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That was a sad sixty ben Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
He didn't get Bradley Beal.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, Miss Bradley Beal and Derwin James.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh yeah, well you.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Would, you would have gotten Charger. He played them twice
a year. But all right, well that was not very good.
What was that sixty points?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Okay, all right, far out? All right, don't choke, far out, Dave, dude,
not choke Dave. All right, David, you ready, Dave?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
What's all right?
Speaker 4 (39:25):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
All right, we have got screamed. These are some of
the scariest athletes of all time. Forty five seconds on
the clock. Begin. A boxer that bit somebody's ear off. Yes, uh,
the center for the Kobe Lakers, big Diesel what's his
full name?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Uh, the big unit pitcher for the Diamondbacks. Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
This guy was a safety for the Steelers. He had
crazy hair, No, he had crazy frizzy hair.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Yes, this guy was a linebacker for the Bears. And
then he was later the head coach for the forty
nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Uh, that's gonna be Mike Single.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yes, this guy was a linebacker for the Steelers. He
had missing teeth. He looked like he was forty seven,
but he was like in his twenties. Kevin Great, No, all.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Right, well it was not that good.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Cool Jack Lambert was that last one that we.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
See for you? Too?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Points behind? Man? Well, listen, I think we're gonna come
back here. How's a lot of treat you?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
What everything are all right about?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
To?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You know that sandwich shop by the way Guardina very good.
I gotta tell you if I was on.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Manuel, do you want better things? Or Anora?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
On the Rogan and Rodney Show, they were talking about that.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
You want better things?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
He brought sandwiches to them as well, and all right
and they're very good samwich. He wants better thing, Yes,
he wants better things. Okay, better things. After years of losing,
these athletes went on to better things. Are you ready
Manuel in Guardina?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yes? All right?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Forty five seconds were on away Go the pitcher and
outfielder for the Dodgers from Japan.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Yes, a quarterback for the l A Rams.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
He came over from the Lions running back for the
Greatest Show on Turf, the Saint Louis Rams. Yes, the
safety for the Raiders. He also played for the Green
Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Hall of Fame. Yes, Cuban reliever.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Played for the Yankees and the Cubs won the World
Series with both. Yes, center with a biblical name. In
the NBA, he's Yes, outfielder for the Giants. Kind of
a white guy. Didn't wear batting gloves. Kind of weird
looking dude, long hair, No, no white, no like ten
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years ago.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Damn it. He's a current analyst on MLB Network, Hunter Pen.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Nobody watches MLB Network.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
All right, okay, you have three hundred points.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
All right, we're in the lead. Were you want to
give up? Right now? Just quick, right now? Why not?
Dave and I in the game.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Dave and I got there.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You don't have don't choke to don't choke, all right, David,
don't don't do we have an.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Quiet. These athletes have all had strip club incidents.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Dave, all right, that's the ballet.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Don't chick in the beard.
In the NBA, yes, uh, this guy is a point guard.
For the Grizzlies. He loves guns.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Yes, I don't think, yes he did.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I don't think this guy is the lead wide receiver.
He was a rookie for the Giants. He is a
star rookie receiver.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
That's going to be a neighbors neighbors.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
Yes, uh, this guy is the wide receiver for the Giants.
Back of the day that shot himself in the leg
on accident. Yes, this guy's nickname was pac Man. He
was on the Bengals name Adam Jones. Yes, uh, this
guy was nicknamed is Lemon Pepper.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
That's gonna be the guy that he was at enough.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Points, Lorena, I don't think it was I don't think
W fifteen sixty was.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I don't think it was enough. I don't think it
was enough.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yeah, you got three twenty, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Noy got did not pet Ja Moran, Jo Moratt.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
He did not catch.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
He did not get job orrt Charlie rough test. Let's
go to replay review, let's go to a boot review.
We got strewed Manuel that and you didn't know who
Bradley Beal was and George Derwin James, but no, essentiously.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
John Moran, he didn't say John Moran. He said that Mort.
He didn't say job blah blah. He said blah blah, Moran,
blah blah. Morane is what he said. I heard it.